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How To Look After Chickens Nz. 990 until you find them. There is plenty of advice here from experienced chicken keepers and armed with the correct management techniques chickens can be kept fit healthy and safe.
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Hi there I am Dana from Piwakawaka Valley I am a homesteading homeschooling mama of 3 living in the south of New Zealand. In fact they only need a third of the space you would give ordinary or standard chicken breeds. 02 square meters per bantam should be sufficient when housing them which is about a square foot.
Keep an eye on the drinker in very hot or freezing weather.
Let your chickens out each morning give them food and water and check they are all in good health. You can also give chickens corn halved grapes or cabbage as a treat but avoid feeding them these treats more than several times a week as its less healthy than chicken feed. In the evening collect eggs clear away food and shut the chickens into their house they dont eat or drink when roosting. Sometime in the 1990s the NZ public began to prefer to eat brown-shelled eggs and so now all commercial layer hens are brown- feathered and lay brown eggs.
